By Jerzy Peterkiewicz
Jerzy Peterkiewicz used to be a novelist, poet and professor of Polish language and literature at London college from 1972 to 1979. He was once additionally the editor and translator of the poetry of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II. He used to be born in Fabianki, within the district of Dobrzyn, north-central Poland.
His first booklet of poetry seemed in 1935, while he used to be 18, devoted to the folk of his village. severe and renowned luck and he began to depict Poland as powerful and free.
When, in 1939, the Germans after which the Russians invaded Poland, his occupation as a journalist and literary editor ended. He controlled to arrive Romania.
He arrived in Britain, from France, in 1940. Exempted from army carrier on health and wellbeing grounds, he used to be helped through the British Council to visit the college of St Andrews. There, he took a primary measure in English and German in 1944, after which, in 1947, a doctorate in English literature from King's university London, turning into the 1st Pole within the historical past of that faculty to take action. quickly afterwards he married the author Christine Brooke-Rose, yet they later separated. He used to be additionally married in short to a Polish actor referred to as Danuta Karel.
His 7th novel, internal Circle, was once intentionally released at the author's fiftieth birthday, numerology being considered one of his many eccentricities. It had an strange triptych constitution with 3 components, floor, Underground and Sky, each one repeated thrice. The dad or mum nominated it publication of the month, after which as one of many books of the 12 months for 1966. It was once a futuristic imaginative and prescient of a hopelessly overcrowded Britain, with no greenery. a lot later, in 1988, this novel was once released in Poland while Peterkiewicz used to be not blacklisted.
Like Peterkiewicz, F.N. Souza the illustrator, was once an immigrant to England, who made a reputation for himself in London within the 1950s.
The narrative of 'Inner Circle', which navigates the prior, current and destiny, turns out to attract parallels with the seamless comingling of truth and myth in Souza's paintings. it will possibly were therefore, might be, that Souza agreed to layout the jacket for this quantity, and likewise to give a contribution twenty-seven drawings when it comes to the textual content, together with an indication of the author's commitment at the final web page. each one of Souza's drawings, together with a number of intricately cross-hatched figurative works, has been given a full-page within the ebook.
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But what about those situations, now of such frequent occurrence, in which good means have end results which turn out to be bad? For example, we go to a tropical island and with the aid of DDT we stamp out malaria and, in two or three years, save hundreds of thousands of lives. This is obviously good. But the hundreds of thousands of human beings thus saved, and the millions whom they beget and bring to birth, cannot be adequately clothed, housed, educated or even fed out of the island’s available resources.
Recent developments in Russia and recent advances in science and technology have robbed Orwell’s book of some of its gruesome verisimilitude. A nuclear war will, of course, make nonsense of everybody’s predictions. But, assuming for the moment that the Great Powers can somehow refrain from destroying us, we can say that it now looks as though the odds were more in favor of something like Brave New World than of something like 1984. In the light of what we have recently learned about animal behavior in general, and human behavior in particular, it has become clear that control through the punishment of undesirable behavior is less effective, in the long run, than control through the reinforcement of desirable behavior by rewards, and that government through terror works on the whole less well than government through the non-violent manipulation of the environment and of the thoughts and feelings of individual men, women and children.
Brave New World was written before the rise of Hitler to supreme power in Germany and when the Russian tyrant had not yet got into his stride. In 1931 systematic terrorism was not the obsessive contemporary fact which it had become in 1948, and the future dictatorship of my imaginary world was a good deal less brutal than the future dictatorship so brilliantly portrayed by Orwell. In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change.